Dean A. Goetz and the Gomez Law Firm are the attorneys for Mr. Loren Kranksy, the Plaintiff in the first Depuy trial in the Country.

As the pre trial commences, new information is becoming available to the public.

An internal analysis conducted by Johnson & Johnson in 2011 not long after it recalled a troubled hip implant estimated that the all-metal device would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients who received it, newly disclosed court records show. […]

The internal Johnson & Johnson analysis is among hundreds of internal company documents expected to become public as the first of over 10,000 lawsuits by patients who got an A.S.R. prepares to go to trial this week. The episode represents one of the biggest medical device failures in recent decades and the forthcoming trial is expected to shed light on what officials of Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division knew about the device’s problem before its recall and the actions they took or did not take.

January 22, 2013 New York Times,
“Maker Aware of 40% Failure in Hip Implant”